[mythtv-users] Live TV Playback is too slow - mythtv-0.21-211

Rodney Morris rodamorris at gmail.com
Fri Aug 28 19:13:08 UTC 2009


On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Jan Andrejkovic<jandrejkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I installed mythtv-0.21 from atrpms on Fedora 11 and I have DVB-T card WinTV
> Nova-T USB2 and motherboard Jetway J7F2WE2G (CPU is VIA C7 2Ghz). I try to
> run both backend and front end on the same box.
>
> My problem is when I try to watch live tv, the picture is not smooth, it is
> looks like slow motion. However when I tried to watch it in Kaffeine it was
> OK. Also when watchiing Mythtv, CPU is loaded at about 50% so I believe it
> has some spare power. I tried to renice frontend and backend but I did not
> get any improvement.
>
> Did anybody experience similar problem with mythtv?
>

Although I have a similar problem with watching LiveTV on my Fedora 10
system using an hvr-1250, the problem disappears once I change the
tuner to another channel.  What happens if you change the channel
while watching LiveTV?  Does the next channel play at a normal rate?

Rod


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